Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.